YEAR Six pupils at St White’s Primary School in Cinderford are ‘over the Moon’ about their latest science project - building a life sized replica of the Apollo 11 command module.

With the help of older pupils from Dene Magna School, they will recreate the historic spacecraft that took Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to the Moon and back in July 1969.

When completed they will use it as the centrepiece of a presentation on space travel to the rest of the school.

Deputy headteacher Clare Tilling, who is heading the project said: “Obviously it’s not the whole of Apollo 11 just the command module that stayed in space while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went down to the surface in the Eagle landing module.

“I asked six pupils in Year Six what they wanted to do as a space project and they all said something about the Moon landing.

“They have written to all the relevant museums and authorities to amass all the information needed for the presentations.

“These will include information about life inside the module, facts and figures and information about all the bits they dropped off along the way.”